Trump first and last.

 


So it’s happened, as many predicted and many feared. An authoritarian, narcissistic deeply flawed personality whose vindictiveness is well known will now move against and seek retribution against the legal system which had sought to bring him to book. Trumps win has been so overwhelming and left the democrats scrambling for some sort of meaning to their defeat. What is it in his charisma, both within his followers, or the loathing within his detractors, this extreme position which has revealed itself to the the ordinary man/woman on the street. An egotist can rarely be described as attractive and there’s hardly any point of mutual contact between the pro Trump and anti Trump group.
Is it a case of male masculinity versus female consensus seeking, is there blood in the air amongst Americans due to the missteps by the ‘democrat’s’ being in part party to their country being weakened by the Taliban in Afghanistan and the Russians in Ukraine. America who felt supreme since they had financially remoulded the world since the Second World War, who had built up a ‘nuclear arsenal’ and a ‘ballistic delivery’ and a mobile naval platform during the confrontation with the USSR which made Americans believe they walk on water. The rise of China, the stomping of Kim Jung-un across the Korean/Asian peninsula and of course the resurgence of Russia under Vladimir Putin.
“Mine is bigger than yours” is a masculine phenomenon and leaders in some countries rely on this vision of strength to embrace their electorate. In totalitarian regimes there are no elections, (in the normal understanding of the word), no need to take into consideration the population at large which can hobble the act of leadership without needing  the delicate balancing act of  ‘accounting’ to a parliamentary opposition or the dissenting voices within one’s own party. The authoritarian totalitarian has no such fight on their hands, there word is gospel, there aim is unswerving.
Trump is vindictive, famous for suing his opponents he is a bully yet the American public when out in their millions to vote for him even though many of them disliked him as a person.  Part of it is due to the American personality brought up in amongst Wall Street riches and the Founding Fathers attitude of individuality and every man for himself,  maintaining a gun culture that astonishes the world and an intolerance of failure.
The hysteria of his supporters is fascinating ,it’s as if each had won the lottery nothing normal but then nothing is normal in that country.
The question of what is normal is characterised my the temperament of the Russian, the Chinese, or North Korean, the willingness to subserve for the nations good, the strength of religious values, the idealism of political belief the blindness  of ‘follower culture’ formed by slogans and half truths.
The world is a tricky place if you believe in conformity, if you hold for commonality among humans if you believe in listening and evolving your own sense of what is right and wrong. If you believe there is a little bit of everyone in everyone, not too much not too little but enough to at least listen.
Where do we go from here as the global policeman hangs up his coat and a free for all becomes the norm much like Europe used to be 18th/19th century with boarders claimed and redrawn, wars fought over a family feud or nothing more than a squabble since human life is cheap to some people and sending young men to do battle on your behalf is par for the course.